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9/11 Health and Compensation in the News
Below are summaries with url’s to news articles that appeared recently about 9/11 Health and Compensation issues. An archive of past articles by year, can be found on the 911 Health Watch website at http://www.911healthwatch.org/news/ : March 20, 2018 — Spectrum — Funeral held for firefighter and former ferry boat captain who evacuated hundreds on […]
Statement of 911 Health Watch on the Release of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) 6th Annual Report
911 Health Watch wants to commend the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Special Master Rupa Bhattacharyya, along with her staff, for the progress they have demonstrated in this annual report, in working to process claims for injured and ill 9/11 Responders and Survivors and get them the compensation that they need and deserve. Today’s […]
More Stuyvesant High School grads who got sick after 9/11 join Zadroga Act campaign
Shoshana Dornhelm, 31, was a sophomore at the elite high school when the twin towers were attacked — and fifteen years later, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and went through six rounds of chemotherapy.
9/11 Health and Compensation in the News
Below are summaries with url’s to news articles that appeared recently about 9/11 Health and Compensation issues. An archive of past articles by year, can be found on the 911 Health Watch website at http://www.911healthwatch.org/news/ : January 10, 2018 — Luxora Leader — FDNY hero Joseph Stach Jr. of Valley Cottage remembered: Editorial FDNY Lt. […]
9/11 Health and Compensation in the News
Below are summaries with url’s to news articles that appeared recently about 9/11 Health and Compensation issues. An archive of past articles by year, can be found on the 911 Health Watch website at http://www.911healthwatch.org/news/ : December 27, 2017 — NY Daily News — Stop stalling on WTC sick: U.S. Labor Department and NYCERS are […]
9/11 Health and Compensation in the News
Below are summaries with url’s to news articles that appeared recently about 9/11 Health and Compensation issues. An archive of past articles by year, can be found on the 911 Health Watch website at http://www.911healthwatch.org/news/ : December 10, 2017 — InsiderNJ — The Lingering WTC Legacy We Ignore For years we vowed “to never forget” […]
Stony Brook Expands WTC Health Program to Commack
First responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster, Stony Brook Medicine staff and community members gathered on November 28 for the grand opening of the new World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program Long Island Clinical Center of Excellence…
Woman, 32, diagnosed with 9/11-related cancer years after the attacks which left her high school covered in toxic fumes
Michele Lent Hirsch was 16 when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, four blocks from her high school in downtown Manhattan.
New York firefighter who died from a brain tumor linked to 9/11 remembered for being ‘loved by many’ and his work on the Zadroga Act to protect those who were made sick at Ground Zero
Robert Tilerarcio, 58, was remembered by friends and family at the funeral Mass held at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Massapequa, New York
NY Daily News — New 9/11 monument: A moral imperative
Today’s Oped in the NY Daily News by 911 Health Board Member Dr. James Melius and 9/11 Responder Advocate John Feal, thanking Gov. Andrew Cuomo, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Jon Stewart and the board of directors of the National September 11th Memorial & Museum for announcing a plan to create a monument to honor the […]